Bruce Downey v. Joseph Crabtree, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 662 · 1996
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 31 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Lopez v. Davis (2001), Paul Bowen v. Robert a Hood Fci (2000)
35 federal appellate · 31 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Taylor v. United States · Bailey v. United States · Stinson v. United States · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he period a prisoner convicted of a nonviolent offense remains in custody after successfully completing a treatment program may be reduced by the Bureau of Prisons, but such reduction may not be more than one year from the term the prisoner must otherwise serve.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or (B) that by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make available appropriate substance abuse treatment for each prisoner the Bureau determines has a treatable condition of substance addiction or abuse.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.